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The article announces the winners of the periodical 2020 Best Global Projects Awards including a housing project of Ministerio de Vivienda y Ordenamiento Territorial in South Africa; the Engineering Authority for Egyptian Armed Forces in Egypt; and Sindh Water sector Irrigation Project in Pakistan.

The article features this periodical's list of 29 solutions to some complex engineering and architectural problems faced by building teams. Among the areas in building covered are design, building information modelling (BIM)/information technology, collaboration, healthcare, products, technology, business management and green buildings. Among the buildings featured are a riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois, elevated urban park in New York City and walking path in BeachBody, a company based in Santa Monica, California.

This article focuses on the design and construction of the Aria Hotel Casino and the Vdara luxury condominium/hotel on MGM Mirage's CityCenter, a mixed-use complex currently under construction in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Aria Hotel Casino is designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and is being constructed between the Bellagio and Monte Carlo resorts. Designed by Raphael Viñoly, the Vdara is the main attraction in Block B and stands between the Bellagio and Aria.

The article reviews the Projectwise building information modeling (BIM) project collaboration system from Bentley, and the Buzzsaw collaborative management solution from Autodesk.

The article tackles the transition to three-dimensional building information modeling (BIM) among construction firms in the U.S. Building firms like HDR and Dewberry has a way to address the BIM transition. BIM managers think of ways to training designers to use 3-D modeling. The National BIM Standard project committee of the National Institute of Building Sciences is working on its BIM standard. INSET: BIM there, done that.

The article announces the joining of Patricia Zugibe, as chief executive officer at Holt Construction Corp., Brad Meltzer, as chairman at Plaza Construction, and Raheem Beyah, as new dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

The article announces several appointments including Jonathan Wilkinson as chief operating officer of the Royal BAM Group N.V.; Robert E. "Bob" Alger as president of SNC-Lavalin Inc.; and Christopher Miers as a partner of construction consulting firm HKA.

The article offers information on Autodesk's Construction Cloud builders network which has more than one million users, the company disclosed March 10 2020 at the ConEXPOCON/ AGG trade show in Las Vegas. Topics include the Autodesk Construction Cloud includes products such as Assemble, BIM360 and Building Connected; and Autodesk added to its leadership team by hiring Amy Marks as its head of industrialized construction.

The article discusses the architectural design of the Ameren Missouri Bagnell Dam Stabilization located in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., that was designed by MC Industrial, a McCarthy Holdings Co.

The article focuses on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's WUFI program, a Windows-based program that helps building firms calculate heat and moisture transfer through a building enclosure when exposed to weather. WUFI uses various data to predict the behavior of building components. John Straube, a building science professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, mentioned the downside of the program. Kami Farahmandpour, principal and founder of Building Technology Consultants, supports WUFI.

The article focuses on a Autodesk, construction software company's making of its tools work in an automated construction workplace. It focuses on how to better integrate its vast software library with the workflows of on-site robotics as well as with prefabrication and modular construction and also highlights shifting tools toward robotics and modular design.

The article offers information on several topics such as Autodesk has announced the Autodesk Construction Cloud service that combines existing design and construction tools. It mentions that Jenny Moshea, head of technology at Seattle-based Sellen Construction, uses Assemble, BuildingConnected and Autodesk's design products. It also mentions that Sellen Construction, uses Assemble, BuildingConnected and Autodesk's design products.

The article focuses on the selection of SHW Group's Michigan Studio in Detroit to design and engineer a 32,000 square foot Michigan State University (MSU) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. SHW designers are reportedly taking three floors of shell space in a new building through programming and design development. It is stated that they also created a set of drawings and a 3D Revit model for the campus. The completion of the two-story project is by August 2008, the article adds.